March, 1905 | 
EDITORIAL NOTES 
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species f 245 in collaboration with Osbert Sal- 
vin), 135 new genera (25 with Salvin), and two 
new families of American birds. In a broader 
sense, therefore, Dr. Sclater is one of the most 
eminent and prolific of American naturalists. 
Dr. Jean Cabanis, the veteran German or- 
nithologist, has also been an indefatigable 
worker. He is well known through the Mu- 
seum Heinianum (with Heine) and the bird 
volume of Fauna Peruana. He has published 
Oruitliologisehe Notizen (Wiegmann Arch, iv, 
1847), Uebersicht der im Rerlin Museum be 
findlichen Vogel von Costa Rica (Journ. fur 
Ornithologie, 1860-1862), Uebersicht der von 
Herrn Carl Euler in District Contagallo, Pro- 
vinz Rio de Janeiro gesammelten Vogel, 1874, 
Journal fur Ornith ologi e . 
and also a large number of other papers in the 
With Mr. Howard Saunders one always asso- 
ciates the excellent account of the gulls and 
terns in the Catalogue of Birds of the British 
Museum. He has also written a Manual of 
British Birds ( 1888-89), and contributed numer- 
ous papers to the Proceedings of Zoological 
Society of London, The Ibis, Zoologist , etc. 
Among these may be mentioned. A List of the 
Birds of Southern Spain (Ibis, 1871), On the 
Sterninae or terns with descriptions of three 
new species (P. Z. S., 1876), On the Lari me or 
gulls ( P. Z. S., 1878), O11 tlie geographical dis- 
tribution of gulls and terns ( 1879). .Mr. Saun- 
ders has been associated with Dr. Sclater as one 
of the editors of The Ibis. 
Victor Ritter Von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen, 
the distinguished Austrian ornithologist, was 
born December 28, 1847, at Slichov near 
Prag. Bohemia, and since 1871 has resided 
at Villa Tannenhof, near Hallein, Salzburg. 
His special field of study is palsearctic orni- 
thology. The Count's collection contains 
over 5500 skins, many in rare and exclusive 
series, and it is open to everyone for scien- 
tific study. In late years he has devoted 
himself to the study of geographical forms, of 
which he has described a great number. At the 
request of the late Crown Prince Rudolf he di- 
rected for eight years the ornithological obser- 
vation stations in Austro-Hungary, editing the 
results of the work as published in Ornis and 
in six separate yearbooks. .Since 1890 Count v. 
Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen has edited that excel- 
lent journal, the Ornithotogisches Jahrbuch , 
which is devoted exclusively to the advance- 
ment of palmarctic ornithology. Up to Octo- 
ber, 1904, he has published about 400 ornitho- 
logical works, and with 1905 looks back upon 
fort} r years of ornithological activity. 
We take pleasure in calling attention to an 
addition to our editorial force. Mr. William 
Lovell Finley of Portland, Oregon, who with 
Mr. Herman T. Bohlman, has contributed to 
The Condor frequently during the past three 
years, has been appointed an associate editor by- 
president Mailliard. Unfortunately Mr. Fin- 
ley’s article, with numerous remarkable photo- 
graphs of hummingbirds, through an abund- 
ance of copy on the waiting list, has to be post- 
poned till the May issue. 
Owing to the fact that practically all the edit- 
orial force of The Condor will be “otherwise 
engaged" during the coming summer, all no- 
tices and manuscripts intended for the July 
issue must reach the editor not later than May 
1. The short notes published in this issue 
about exhaust our supply. They have been 
coming in very slowly since November. Will 
not every member search his note-books? 
We extend our best thanks to our Club mem- 
ber Mr. Louis Agassiz l'uertes who has contrib- 
uted the painting of the prairie falcon repro- 
duced as the frontispiece of this issue. We also 
wish to thank Mr. Ruthven Deane for the cour- 
tesy of loaning a valuable lithograph — that of 
Prince Charles Bonaparte — for reproduction. 
We are obliged to repeat the apology made in 
the last issue for the postponement of the Club 
Roster, which will surely appear in Maw 
For the May issue we have interesting letters 
upon an interesting subject from Prof. Alfred 
Russell Wallace, and Dr. Leonhard Stejneger. 
More will follow in the July issue. 
FROM FIELD AND STUDY 
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Orange-crowned Warbler taken at San 
Luis Obispo, Cal. — While overhauling our 
series of Helminthophila recentlv I came across 
a specimen taken at San Luis Obispo on Octo- 
ber 10, 1903, which had been laid aside for 
further examination and forgotten for the time 
being. This individual was shot by my brother 
during a trip we made together, and while we 
were much surprised to find a warbler of this 
genus at such a time of year, as well as being 
puzzled at its large size, it did not occur to 
either of us that it might prove to be H. 
celata. In fact we laid it aside in order 
to compare it with specimens of IT. c. 
lutescens or sordida in fall plumage if we could 
find any. The taking of two IT. celata in the 
Mojave Desert lately brought the matter to my 
mind and close comparison shows the San Luis 
Obispo bird (Coll, of J. & J. W. M., field no. 
5758, (5 ) to be of this form, making it the 
most northern record in California for the 
orange-crowned warbler — unless I am greatly 
mistaken. — Joseph Maili.iard. 
The Mockingbird at Stanford Univer- 
sity, Cal. — Dr. Jordan informs me that he ob- 
served a mockingbird, Mini us po/yg lottos leu- 
copterus , in his door-yard Dec. 20, 1904. The 
same or another individual was seen in the 
vicinity by others, for a week or two subse- 
quently. This species is very rare here. — 
Walter K. Fisher. 
